Isn't Puerto Rico part of USA? IGT

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Lindstrom is a Ugly American pussy who deserved his rotator cuff injury for throwing at a Dutch minor leaguer in an exhibition tournament.

[Gwreck]

Mexico got knocked out by Cuba last night, so Oliver Perez, please get yourself on the next flight back to Port St. Lucie immediately.

[soupcan]

Gwreck wrote: Mexico got knocked out by Cuba last night, so Oliver Perez, please get yourself on the next flight back to Port St. Lucie immediately.

Mexcellent.

="Edgy DC"]It's a contact sport played with really hard balls.

That's what she said.

(sorry, I'll stop now)

[Guest holychicken]

Players who are playing the WBC should probably start their spring training a bit early if everyone is so paranoid about them getting injured.

The fans and many of the players seem to be pumped for this thing so I believe it is here to stay. Soccer deals with it when it comes to the World Cup, which is the most popular sporting event in the world (IIRC), so I believe that the fans of the local teams are going to have to suck it up and face the fact that the WBC is not going anywhere in the foreseeable future. So instead of fighting to have them not play, start fighting for them to prepare for the tourney.

[Guest Edgy DC]

holychicken wrote: Players who are playing the WBC should probably start their spring training a bit early if everyone is so paranoid about them getting injured.

Most of them do.

Anybody else on Matt Lindstrom?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy DC wrote: ="holychicken"]Players who are playing the WBC should probably start their spring training a bit early if everyone is so paranoid about them getting injured. Most of them do. Anybody else on Matt Lindstrom?

Um... I wish we still had this jerk?

[metirish]

Please stop in the booth with the excuses about the USA roster....

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Daybidrye!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Holy crap!

I mean, I thought I'd seen Jeter do everything, but the way he willed that out of Wright. I mean, it's like he wouldn't have accepted less.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Okay, all WBC bellyaching aside, that was a ballgame y media.

Now give us our Carloses back.

[metirish]

That was exciting....I mean I didn't really care about this tourney but that game was worth watching.....

[Guest Edgy DC]

And Gary Thorne is doing the Japan-Korea game. It's the Classic that keeps giving.

[metirish]

Didn't I just hear Gary do a hockey game on Versus?

[Guest holychicken]

Woot! Wright gets the walk off hit. Great ending to a good game. We get a bunch of players back (for you WBC haters), US advances and Wright comes up big.

Of course, tomorrow's story won't include Jeter's misplay in the 9th and the fact that he was the only US player to make an out in the 9th.

[Guest Number 6]

Awesome game, with especially incredible at-bats in the 9th by Victorino and Roberts. It's a shame that so few people were there to see it.

If you watch the celebration closely, Kevin Youkilis tries to run with David Wright's head like it's a football, and ends up with only his helmet. It's easy to see why Youk is so popular.

[Gwreck]

My only thought was "don't hurt him!"

Thank you, David...now:
Carlos
Carlos
Pedro
Alex
Nelson

get back to Port St. Lucie NOW!!!

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If Redding starts the year on the DL, perhaps Figueroa has an outside chance at making the roster. 7.1 IP, 0 R, 2 H, 6 K, 3 BB. Not too shabby.

[Gwreck]

Also notable in today's game: Beltran robs a home run from McCann that was going over the CF wall.

MLB Network announcers go on about what a great catch it was (and it was) but proceed to talk about how it'd go on the all-WBC highlight reel.

I think to myself -- I'm not sure that even goes on the all-Beltran highlight reel.

[duan]

about the crowds - why in the name of jesus were they playing the games in Miami which has proven that it doesn't get excited about baseball.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's one of life's mysteries.

Here's another: Lady Caca? You might as well bill yourself as Madame Poopshit.

[Guest themetfairy]

It's Lady Gaga, old man.

[Gwreck]

duan wrote: about the crowds - why in the name of jesus were they playing the games in Miami which has proven that it doesn't get excited about baseball.

Excited about the Marlins, you mean.

Did you see the crowd for the Puerto Rico-Venezuela game? They were fantastic.

[Guest Edgy DC]

themetfairy wrote: It's Lady Gaga, old man.

Well, shut my mouth.

[Guest Edgy DC]

That ninth inning rally featured five guys reaching and only one guy making an out.

Guess.

[metirish]

Jeter made the out......as hard as that is to believe...IIRC he fluffed it with the bases juiced earlier in the game.

[metirish]

Brian Roberts said it all right here....

] "I heard David Wright's face was in the dirt and every Met fan in the world was panicking."

[Guest Edgy DC]

You can still see where it's tender on the side of his face. It seemed more raw during the celebration.



Meanwhile, Potsie is a little overboard with with the post-game arm-care. Who is he --- Hellboy?

[metirish]

Great pictures , if that guy didn't have an arm injury surely he wold after lugging that thing around.

[Fman99]

I watched the highlights on ESPN this morning... I watched the first two innings last night but then got distracted by chores, parenting, etc.

So, my reaction is -- yay. They won. Whoopity. Funny to see them piling up in front of, what, 11k fans?

I like the fact that Putz (IP, 0 ER, 2K), Wright (game winning hit), Beltran (catch) and Delgado (dinger) all seem to have acquitted themselves well -- but that's a Mets fan talking.

So who do we have left that's playing? K-Rod, Wright, Putz? Is that it now?

[A Boy Named Seo]

Fman, why do you hate America so?

[seawolf17]

Edgy DC wrote: That ninth inning rally featured five guys reaching and only one guy making an out. Guess.

That's because he's a LEADER, Edge. Leaders make the players around them better. He could have gotten the game winning hit, but he's not a selfish player. He knew that making an out there would give someone else the opportunity to win that game.

Come on, man. Respect.